The blog seems to have some more details and features: https://bold-edit.com/blog/wrote-my-own.html. The feature set does seem nice, will keep an eye for this, but likely that you will have to pry Emacs out of my dead hands :)
Yeah. Text editors constantly come and go. And that's no bad thing, but for those of us just wanting to edit some text: what do we do? The design goal of these projects is always to be better than what's currently available, which sounds great, and then, 5 years later, development has stalled, and the community is gone. Meanwhile Emacs is still going.
The features of this thing all sound decent enough, but there's no source code, and it doesn't run on Windows, and it doesn't run on macOS, and scripting is "coming soon" - I wonder if that scripting will end up even half as good as Emacs's programmability. I bet it won't.
I have been here before. And that is exactly why I continue to use Emacs, even though it is a bit weird. I bet I will still be using Emacs in 2035, and I bet this thing will be long dead.
> and scripting is "coming soon" - I wonder if that scripting will end up even half as good as Emacs's programmability. I bet it won't.
For any application that intends to be scriptable, it's difficult to add scriptability on after the MVP.
The best approach is to build an MVP that takes commands, which means that scripting has to be there before any other feature, including modifying text.
his is why Emacs and Vim are so ergonomic to modify - the base system is a scriptable environment on which the editor was built.
IOW, if you're building a programming editor, you should be doing "create REPL, use REPL to create editor", not "create editor, then try to throw REPL on top of it".
tom_|1 year ago
The features of this thing all sound decent enough, but there's no source code, and it doesn't run on Windows, and it doesn't run on macOS, and scripting is "coming soon" - I wonder if that scripting will end up even half as good as Emacs's programmability. I bet it won't.
I have been here before. And that is exactly why I continue to use Emacs, even though it is a bit weird. I bet I will still be using Emacs in 2035, and I bet this thing will be long dead.
(I bet based on the odds. Time will tell.)
cl3misch|1 year ago
lelanthran|1 year ago
For any application that intends to be scriptable, it's difficult to add scriptability on after the MVP.
The best approach is to build an MVP that takes commands, which means that scripting has to be there before any other feature, including modifying text.
his is why Emacs and Vim are so ergonomic to modify - the base system is a scriptable environment on which the editor was built.
IOW, if you're building a programming editor, you should be doing "create REPL, use REPL to create editor", not "create editor, then try to throw REPL on top of it".
setr|1 year ago